An obituary was published in Wise Country Messenger on 21 February 2002
Robert Olen, Sr. Graves
1917-2002
Service for Robert Olen Graves, Sr., 84, of the Aurora-Newark area was to be Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 10:30 a.m. at Grace Baptist Church in Newark. David Isbell was to officiate. Burial was to follow at Aurora Cemetery.
Pallbearers were to be Bobby Greenwood, Bobby Moore, Robert Gregory, Chris Hall, Brad Hall and Keith Bailey.
Graves died Saturday, Feb. 16, 2002, in Newark.
Born June 28, 1917, in Elmira, N.Y., he was a veteran of WWII. He served in the Marines. He married Winifred Myers Aug. 24, 1940, in Montour Falls, N.Y. He was a member of the Grace Baptist Church in Newark and the American Legion.
He is survived by his wife, Winifred Graves; two sons, Robert Graves and wife Brenda of Aurora and William Earl Graves and wife Doloris of Melrose, N.Y.; a daughter, Buna Mae Boor of Horseheads, N.Y.; three grandchildren, Stephen, Lorraine and Jamie; four great-grandchildren, Franco, Jaslisa, Briana, Daniel Emanuel; eight stepgrandchildren, Sally Jean, Bobbie Gay, Gregg, Brenda Lee, Billy Joe, Shelba, Joe and Bridgette; several great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Wise County Messenger, Feb. 21, 2002.
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